Question juridique clé
Whether Art. 3(3)(a) LAVS exempted the appellant from personal AVS contributions for 2004
Solution extraite
No; because the spouse had reached the retirement age and the appellant had not shown entitlement to the maximum old-age pension, she remained liable for personal contributions as a non-employed person.
Motifs extraits
Under the Court's case law, the deeming rule does not apply once the working spouse receives an old-age pension unless the non-employed spouse can later rely on sufficient credited income to reach the maximum pension. That condition was not met here.